Musk’s target audience are liberal, West Coast, technocratic, white or upper caste Hindu, brogressives and techbros - men (and the occasional token woman like Elizabeth Holmes) who give lip service to equality and talk a good game about social justice, and then go home to their gentrified neighborhoods and beat their wives. The kind of people who vocally celebrate the anti-capitalist ethic of Burning Man and then spend the burn in a luxurious private compound with dozens of servants and sex workers getting high off their ass while artists perform for them like Venetian nobles patronizing Renaissance painters.

His target audience are precisely the people who would name drop the Culture when promoting their latest startup but revert to moralizing about “traditional Western values” the instant someone actually behaves like a Culture member.

Food Not Bombs has a cookbook with a similar style of “protest food” recipes.

The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion

Anybody who downvotes this needs to block this subinstance. And probably the slrpnk instance as a whole. Because if you’re offended by a woman talking about her lived experience as a woman and showing statistics that show her lived experience is very much the norm, it’s unlikely you’ll have anything positive to contribute to a feminist, socialist instance.

Demanding citations to support a narrative of someone’s personal experience is a particularly obnoxious form of sea lioning.

There’s a Sea Shepherd ship captain, Pia Klemp, facing twenty years in an Italian prison because she rescued drowning migrants. Because, in government terms, by bringing them to safety on land she smuggled aliens into Italy.

And she’s just one of the most well known cases in the West. A fisherman in Greece got 280 years in prison for piloting a single ship of migrants to shore after the actual smugglers fled the ship.

Saying the governments of Italy, Greece, Turkey, etc, don’t care about migrant lives understates the situation. They want migrants to die at sea, and they punish people who bring them to land.

Remember the old saying: if a company is giving you something for free, you’re not the customer, you’re the product.

Subreddits are Reddit’s product. Reddit makes money by selling subreddits to advertisers. If moderators damage that product, Reddit takes action. End of story.